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Walden Farms Review - Too Good to be True?

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Lest I say that when I heard about Walden Farm's products I was super curious.  I looked for this stuff everywhere and could only find it at my over priced natural foods market and on amazon.  In general, I would say that most of the products were a bit over $5 each.  They have chocolate and carmel sauce, a variety of salad dressings, PB and Jam, Ketchup, and BBQ.  When you are cutting your diet and these things are no longer permissible, this is like finding the holy grail. (Insert singing angels here.) I started this quest with a couple of salad dressings.  I bought the honey Dijon, the berry vinaigrette, and the ceasar.  The first one that I've tried was the ceasar. It was flavorful, but still not quite what the original is. When I looked at the ingredients, I saw that it was pretty much made up of spices, flavor, vinegar, and thickening agent.  As this has no calories, sugar, fat, but has a slight amount of sodium I saw this as a free food. I went a little heavy with the

Hawaiian Macaroni Potato Salad Recipe

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Macaroni-Potato Salad From  Hawaii Magazine (Serves 8) ½ lb. macaroni 8 hard-cooked eggs 3 red potatoes, cooked and cubed 1 Tbsp. salt 1 Tbsp. vinegar 2 cups mayonnaise ½ tsp.     ground allspice ½ tsp.     pepper 1 package frozen peas, thawed and drained (10 oz.) Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain. Separate egg yolks from egg whites. In a small bowl, mash yolks and chill. Chop egg whites; put into a large bowl with macaroni and potatoes. Stir in salt and vinegar; chill overnight.    Add egg yolks and remaining ingredients; gently mix into macaroni mixture. Chill.